news.am, Armenia
Jan 8 2010
Azerbaijan `cage bird’ for OSCE Minsk Group
17:34 / 01/08/2010The Azerbaijani authorities are once more trying to
deceive both the international community and the Azerbaijani people.
In addition to the sensational story about the resolution on peoples’
self-determination approved by the U.N. General Assembly late last
year, the News.az website published one more provocative article,
which allegedly deals with a message about the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict addressed to the U.N. General Assembly by Azerbaijani
Permanent Representative at the U.N. Akshin Mehtiyev.
This propaganda statement is not an appeal to the U.N., but actually a
protest against the accusations against the Azerbaijani authorities
brought by the Armenian Ambassador and other officials at U.N.
agencies in New York.
Let us consider the `informative’ part of the letter, which allegedly
deals with historical facts. It is a waste of time, self-deception.
The letter was obviously aimed at distorting the history and
development of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. But, leaving the
contents of the letter to historians and diplomats, we would like to
address the main point. The main point is that the Azerbaijani
propaganda is trying to get the Nagorno-Karabakh problem put on the
U.N. agenda and, supported by a number of states, have resolutions
adopted to boast about `the great achievements’ of Baku School of
Diplomacy.
After announcing the failure of the OSCE Minsk Group for the
settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, official Baku, with its
potential in this field totally exhausted, is trying to raise the
issue at the U.N. Later, the list may include NATO, Council of Europe
and so on. It is high time for the Azeri authorities to realize that
the Nagorno-Karabakh problem cannot be resolved at the U.N. or any
other organization that is not entitled to deal with the problem.
To resolve the conflict, the conflicting parties, first of all
Azerbaijan, have to show political will to implement the agreements
reached as a result of negotiations within the OSCE Minsk Group and,
which is most important, to ensure Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in
the negotiations.
T.P.